Coordination complexes involving sydnones as ligands

Dalton Trans. 2019 Nov 14;48(42):15753-15761. doi: 10.1039/c9dt03115d. Epub 2019 Oct 8.

Abstract

Sydnones are mesioionic compounds studied for years for their versatile reactivity in substitution reactions, sydnone-alkyne or sydnone-alkene cycloaddition reactions. This perspective article focuses on the use of sydnones in coordination complexes, either through a metalation on one of the carbons of the sydnone ring, its modification to obtain polydentate ligands, or its use as a polar moiety that could influence the properties of the final complex. Such compounds are valuable either from a synthetic point of view or for their biological properties.